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Type Ia supernovae (SNe) are thought to originate from the thermonuclear explosions of carbon-oxygen (CO) white dwarfs (WDs). The proposed progenitors of standard type Ia SNe have been studied for decades and can be, generally, divided into…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-18 Hagai B. Perets , Yossef Zenati , Silvia Toonen , Alexey Bobrick

We present a model for the triggering of Supernovae Ia (SN Ia) by a phase transition to exact supersymmetry (susy) in the core of a white dwarf star. The model, which accomodates the data on SN Ia and avoids the problems of the standard…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-10-11 L. Clavelli

Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are thermonuclear explosions of degenerate white dwarf (WD) stars destabilized by mass accretion from a companion star, but the nature of their progenitors remains poorly understood. A way to discriminate between…

Overwhelming evidence has accumulated in recent years that supernova explosions are intrinsically 3-dimensional phenomena with significant departures from spherical symmetry. We review the evidence derived from spectropolarimetry that has…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 Lifan Wang , J. Craig Wheeler

The supernova remnants left behind by Type Ia supernovae provide an excellent opportunity for the study of these enigmatic objects. In a previous work, we showed that it is possible to use the X-ray spectra of young Type Ia supernova…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. Badenes , K. J. Borkowski , E. Bravo

Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) have been used as excellent standardizable candles for measuring cosmic expansion, but their progenitors are still elusive. Here we report that the spectral diversity of SNe Ia is tied to their birthplace…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-04-17 Xiaofeng Wang , Lifan Wang , Alexei V. Filippenko , Tianmeng Zhang , Xulin Zhao

Type Ia supernovae (SNe) occur when a white dwarf (WD) explodes via runaway thermonuclear burning. Till date, major uncertainties remain regarding the nature of the explosion mechanism and its observable signatures. In this work, we study…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-27 Soham Mandal , Parviz Ghavamian , Priyam Das , Ivo Rolf Seitenzahl , Shazrene Mohamed , Ashley J. Ruiter

Although type Ia supernovae are so important in many astrophysical field, e.g. in cosmology, their explosion mechanism and progenitor system are still unclear. In physics, the relative equivalent width (REW) of the Si II 635.5 nm absorption…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-15 Xiang-Cun Meng , Ju-Jia Zhang , Xu-Lin Zhao , Li-Ping Li , Xiao-Feng Wang

Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are widely believed to arise from thermonuclear explosions of white dwarfs (WDs). However, ongoing debate surrounds their progenitor systems and the mechanisms triggering these explosions. Recently, Sharon \&…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-18 Amir Sharon , Doron Kushnir , Nahliel Wygoda

Two main physical mechanisms are used to explain supernova explosions: thermonuclear explosion of a white dwarf(Type Ia) and core collapse of a massive star (Type II and Type Ib/Ic). Type Ia supernovae serve as distance indicators that led…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-21 Lingzhi Wang , Xiaohong Cui , Hui Zhu , Wenwu Tian , Xiaofeng Wang

The progenitor system(s) and the explosion mechanism(s) of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are still under debate. Non-electromagnetic observables, in particular gravitational waves and neutrino emission, of thermonuclear supernovae are a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-26 Ivo R. Seitenzahl , Matthias Herzog , Ashley J. Ruiter , Kai Marquardt , Sebastian T. Ohlmann , Friedrich K. Roepke

We present results from a systematic study of the effects of initial parameters on three-dimensional thermonuclear supernova models.

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 F. K. Roepke , M. Gieseler , W. Hillebrandt

Owing to their utility for measurements of cosmic acceleration, Type Ia supernovae (SNe) are perhaps the best-studied class of SNe, yet the progenitor systems of these explosions largely remain a mystery. A rare subclass of SNe Ia show…

We present a systematic study of the diversity of three-dimensional deflagration simulations of Type Ia supernova explosions arising from variations of the initial parameters. By altering the carbon mass fraction, the central density, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. K. Roepke , W. Hillebrandt , M. Gieseler , M. Reinecke , C. Travaglio

Recent observations have extended the range of diversity among spectra of Type Ia supernovae. I briefly discuss SN Ia explosion models in the spectroscopic context, the observed diversity, and some recent results from direct analysis with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 David Branch

Type Ia supernovae (SNe) are believed to be caused by the thermonuclear explosion of a white dwarf (WD), but the nature of the progenitor system(s) is still unclear. Recent theoretical and observational developments have led to renewed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-18 Gilles Ferrand , Ataru Tanikawa , Donald C. Warren , Shigehiro Nagataki , Samar Safi-Harb , Anne Decourchelle

The luminosities of Type Ia supernovae (SNe), the thermonuclear explosions of white-dwarf stars, vary systematically with their intrinsic color and the rate at which they fade. From images taken with the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX),…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Patrick L. Kelly , Alexei V. Filippenko , David L. Burke , Malcolm Hicken , Mohan Ganeshalingam , Weikang Zheng

We present a radiative transfer code to model the nebular phase spectra of supernovae (SNe) in non-local thermodynamic equilibrium (NLTE). We apply it to a systematic study of Type Ia SNe using parameterized 1D models and show how nebular…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-30 János Botyánszki , Daniel Kasen

We consider the competition of the different physical processes that can affect the evolution of a flame bubble in a Type Ia supernovae -- burning, turbulence and buoyancy. Even in the vigorously turbulent conditions of a convecting white…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Zingale , L. J. Dursi

Type-Ia supernovae (SN Ia) are powerful stellar explosions that provide important distance indicators in cosmology. Recently, we proposed a new SN Ia mechanism that involves a nuclear fission chain reaction in an isolated white dwarf (WD)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-11 C. J. Horowitz